About this image: The spiral galaxy NGC 7814 is seen perfectly edge-on, with its thin, dusty disk halving the bright central bulge. Because of its similarity to M104, the well-known Sombrero Galaxy, it is informally referred to as 'the Little Sombrero'.

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